Effect Rucksack KiTaParticipating parents/families
What do I get from Rucksack KiTa?
- Weekly Rucksack KiTa-Parents' group
- Contact/exchange with like-minded people
- Multilingual Rucksack KiTa-Material
- If necessary, qualification as a parent companion
What reinforces/amplifies Rucksack KiTa?
- Knowledge and competences regarding education, upbringing, health, etc.
- Self-confidence through focus on own strengths
- Willingness to engage in dialogue and competence to act in the KiTa
- Parent-child interaction and joint consultation time
- Motivation to promote their own children (e.g. language)
- Participation in social and day care life
- Motivation to deepen and share own language skills and competences, e.g. as a parent companion
How does this change our togetherness?
- Parents/families are integrated into the social life and that of the places of education as well as actively involved
- Families' potential is recognised - for real participation in society
- Potentials and opportunities of cultural diversity become visible - for real change
- Strengthening participation
- Genuine upbringing and education partnerships between parents/families and institution
Participating children
What do I get from Rucksack KiTa?
- Weekly Rucksack KiTa-Group
- Age-appropriate materials (multilingual), e.g. audio books, children's books
- Parallel support by educational staff and parents/family in the day care centre and at home
What reinforces/amplifies Rucksack KiTa?
- Strengthened language skills in the family language(s) and in German
- General language competence, e.g. larger vocabulary
- Positive overall development (e.g. emotional, motor etc.)
- More familiar and intensive parent-child interaction
- Enjoyment of the material/doing
- Subsequent easier transition to school and better school results
- Awareness of multilingualism as a potential
- Opportunity for successful participation in education
How does this change our togetherness?
- More equal opportunities for all children in education
- Social acceptance of multilingualism as a resource and potential for children
Leading parent guides
What do I get from Rucksack KiTa?
- Rucksack KiTa-Training, accompaniment and reflection
- Multilingual programme materials
- Provision of a concept with recommendations for action and ideas/suggestions for practice
- Independent planning freedom
- High flexibility within the framework conditions
What reinforces/amplifies Rucksack KiTa
- Knowledge in the fields of adult education and child development as well as multilingualism and diversity
- Responsibility and independence as a mediator between family and institution
- Self-confidence, practice
- Independent planning freedom
- High flexibility within the framework conditions
How does this change our togetherness?
- First steps into the pedagogical field of work
- KiTas are developing further - towards more diversity-oriented living, acting and working (diversity-oriented).
- Independence
- Motivation to expand one's own field of activity or for proactive further training
Pedagogical staff
What do I get from Rucksack KiTa?
- Griffbereit-Training, accompaniment and reflection
- Rucksack KiTa-Training, guidance and supervisionSupport for parallel support in German → Programme material for pedagogical staff[1]
What reinforces/amplifies Rucksack KiTa?
- Guiding Principle "Education and Training Partnership
- Knowledge and greater sensitivity with regard to diversity-conscious action and multilingualism
- Freedom to shape the day-to-day life of the KiTa accordingly
- Motivation to use language education and promotion in a targeted way
- Less stress, more self-confidence in everyday working life
How does this change our togetherness?
- New educational concepts emerge: diversity-oriented & multilingualism-promoting
- Education is migration-sensitive, diversity-conscious and promotes multilingualism
- This education becomes the guiding principle of society and leads to an open, diverse society at all levels.
[1] In consensus with the educational principles for children from 0 to 10 years in day care centres and schools in the primary sector in North Rhine-Westphalia published in 2016: https://www.mfkjks.nrw/sites/default/files/asset/document/bildungsgrundsaetze_januar_2016.pdf (as of 04.05.2016).
Participating educational institution
What do I get from Rucksack KiTa?
- Weekly Rucksack KiTa-Group
- Qualified parent guides
- Training, accompaniment and reflection
- Equipping the facility, e.g. with diversity-conscious play materials, books, pictures as well as ideas and suggestions for a language and learning stimulating environment in all languages available to the children.
What reinforces/amplifies Rucksack KiTa?
- Practice-oriented knowledge on diversity-conscious approaches to action and the established implementation thereof
- Openness to inputs from families with an international history for the KiTa everyday life
- Interaction with parents with international family history
- Acceptance of parents = "education experts
- Fulfilment of legal requirements (see e.g. for NRW KiBiz)
- Addressing multilingualism as a potential
- Better preparation for further education, better educational opportunities for children
How does this change our togetherness?
- Strengthening the educational partnership with parents/families along the educational chain
- Educational institutions open up in a migration-sensitive and diversity-oriented way already in the early childhood sector[1]
[1] http://publi.lvr.de/publi/PDF/750-Gemeinsam-Verschieden.pdf, p. 9 (as of 04.05.2016).